Marcia....Beautiful quilt...as for the quilting that is the exact reason my Dad is quilting......I took one of my quilts to a quilter....9 months later still not done...can you imagine...and the charge was high if she would have finished it....Plus I had to wait 5 months before I could give it to her to do....so I was on a time line to get my quilt to her.....She did do excellant work but my goodness my money counts too....any way I found another quilter but she done an aweful job....:-( So Dad said I think I can do better than that and he has...plus I get to use the machine as well.....:-)